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the Keiser family ~ San Diego Family Photography, mission beach

Monday | April 13th | 2009 –

The weather was calling for rain all day and even thunderstorms… which quite honestly, I didn’t buy at all.  We ended up with partly cloudy skies, of course:)  But I did hear it rained all night in North County with thunder and lightning.  That would have been fun.  This family was in town on vacation and told me I could come to their house in Nebraska if I wanted some good storms.  I would so love that:)

Onto this session.  We had a lot of fun.  Mom, Dad, and their six kids ranging in age from 13-8 mos.  We decided to walk from their place in N. Mission up to the pier and stop along the way.   The kids were great… it was a long shoot but I think breaking it up and playing on the boardwalk wall and the lifeguard tower and the pier helped.  I really could have photographed them for hours… but I don’t think the kids were going to have anything to do with that plan:P

So let’s bring out the photos.  I have TONS of favorites… but I kind of always do so here are 16 that I love.

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baby photographyMom said that Rhett would probably be shy with me.  I started taking photos of the other kids and he was quite curious about what I was doing.  Love this one:)
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And this would be the miracle shot at the very end of our day with lots of help from mom and dad:)sibling photos on the beach
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This photo sums up each of these boys perfectly:)boys mission beach
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baby photosOk I think that is all of them for now.  I really could post about 176 more.  I have the hardest time narrowing down my family shoots.  Wish me luck!

And to the Keiser family…. thank you so much for inviting me along to photograph your darling and fun family.  I hope you all make it back to So. Cal. again someday:)

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creating a photo wall gallery

Thursday | September 11th | 2008 –

I mentioned that my dad got married two weeks ago and I still have photos to show from the wedding. But the few weeks before the wedding, we put together a wall gallery for their stairway area. Dawn and my dad have been together for eight years. My boys were 3 and 5. Dawn has a neice and nephew on her side who both have kids and my sister Nicole has her daughter and then my three boys. One side of the stairway needed to be Dawn’s family and the other wall, my family. And they didn’t want the traditional stair-stepping structure that is typical of wall galleries along the stairs.

These prints are all done on 1/4″ white foam board and hung with Command, Velcro strips. I spaced the images 2″ apart from each other on all sides. Not dealing with frames and nails made it so much easier and they can easily be changed out with updated images. The walls for this display are really high with tall windows above the images. The sizes range from 20×24’s down to 8×12’s. The long skinny ones are 10×30’s and 10×20’s.

It’s really important when ordering images to know what size area you are considering. You may never hang the pictures up if you ordered a random smattering of 8×10’s and 11×14’s or bought frames to put the images in before you even had the images (I am guilty of this… i have a lot of random frames tucked away over here). While a 20×24 sounds enormous, it really isn’t. And when you have large prints that are thought out and placed with smaller prints in a preplanned design, the finished product comes together beautifully.

I love putting together custom wall displays for my clients. It’s especially helpful when I can see the space as well either through a photo or in person. There are just so many great combinations that can be put together.

Ok… here are the images from my dad’s stairway.

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Storyboards

Sunday | September 7th | 2008 –

A great way to display several photos in one print is a storyboard.  They also make great gifts.  And they look awesome framed or unframed.  I always make up a few for my client’s galleries that fit their images.  These are just a few examples and the different sizes I usually make them up in.

10×20
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20×20
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16×20
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I don’t always do them in black and white, just for display purposes.  Although I tend to like black and white for wall art.  There are so many ways to make these unique and fun.  These are just some of the basics except this last one is a little different with the long verticals.  And words can be added to any of them.  Later I will show some more ‘decked out’ versions with graphics.

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Albums

Saturday | September 6th | 2008 –

I have a lot of fun new products that I have been putting together over the last few months. I’ve had these albums done since April but am just getting them posted here. It’s never too late though.

Because I have an extensive background in scrapbooking, albums are something that I love. Albums are also something that I know I have heard every single one of my friends say that they plan to get their photos in an album one day. One day could mean never at the rate we all go though.

So when thinking of what I wanted to offer my clients, Albums came to mind immediately. A lot of my clients get digital images on CD and I know that some may get a few prints but I think many fall into the ‘one day’ category as well. I didn’t want to offer any old album that anyone could make. I wanted to find albums that were bold and beautiful. And I did.

This first one is my favorite. It is the Contemporary and they come with a silk image cover, frosted white acrylic, and leather (not shown) and you can get this album in a 9×9 or the 12×12 with 10, 15 or 20 pages. Each page is a mat with a cut out to fit the images that should go together perfectly and I design each book to create the perfect story from our photo shoot. I love the cover choices. I love the mats. I love how thick the pages are. They’re amazing.

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This next book is my coffee table book called the Modern album. However, this book is not ordinary in anyway. When I was thinking of the perfect coffee table book, I wanted watercolor paper and the edges torn like how watercolor artists tear the edges of their art and mount their picture right on the a board. So last winter I went to a photography convention, WPPI (the best thing I have ever done business wise) and there it was… an album with watercolor paper and torn edged. I almost died.

This album comes as a 9×6 or an 11.5×8 (the one shown is this size). You can also get the album without the torn pages and you can get it with smooth pages. But I love the elegance of the watercolor texture. This book comes with a leather cover in black, brown, or red and a photo cover book jacket.

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My last set of albums are my Classic albums.  They come in 4×6, 5×7, and 8×8.  There are tons of covers to choose from but my favorites are the leathers (so many colors).  The 4×6 and the 5×7 are perfect for gift albums.  The 8×8 album can have a window like the one shown in green below and each of the pages is a full photographic image like the other two albums but with so much space, I design each page so there are multiple photos on a two page spread (the 8×8 book is also available as a Contemporary album with the covers from that set).

The pages of these albums are hard matboard and the images are adhered straight to the board with about a 1/16″ border around the whole image.  The board colors available are black and white.  The pages can either be 10, 15 or 20 pages.  So a 20 page book is 40 images.  The covers range from fabrics to faux to leather.

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Those are the albums.  They are my favorite things to create.  Although I do love a good wall display.  It’s a toss up.  I think everyone needs both:)

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